Yesterday, we kick-started our largest festival ever — three inspirational days of talks, performances, and conversations. The Airbnb community came t…

Yesterday, we kick-started our largest festival ever — three inspirational days of talks, performances, and conversations. The Airbnb community came together from around the world to explore unique neighborhoods, spark lasting friendships, and reimagine hospitality’s future in Los Angeles.
Here’s an inside look at the first day.

Matt's back chatting to Roman Kemp about life in Spain in this week's pre-show live!
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Matt's back chatting to Roman Kemp about life in Spain in this week's pre-show live!
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Planning a trip to Disneyland but not sure what to eat?
We went to Anaheim, California, to uncover the top three snacks in Disneyland. Here they…

Planning a trip to Disneyland but not sure what to eat?
We went to Anaheim, California, to uncover the top three snacks in Disneyland. Here they are:
1. Mickey Beignets
2. Chicken and Veggie Skewers
3. Matterhorn Macaroons
This is one in a series of Challenge videos, in which our team of Expedia Viewfinders brings you the best of everything you need to know to plan an outstanding visit to Disneyland Resort.
Traveling with kids? Solo? Just the adults? For a celebration? We've got you covered with tips and tricks that will appeal to you no matter your travel style.
Ready to book? Use our award-winning app or head to Expedia.com/Disney for all of the tools you need to plan an epic Disney adventure.

For the entire year of 2016, a team of designers, researchers, developers, and product managers have been working on improving the Airbnb mobile app i…

For the entire year of 2016, a team of designers, researchers, developers, and product managers have been working on improving the Airbnb mobile app in an unprecedented level of collaboration with hosts.

We’re delighted to announce that leading Chinese online travel agent Ctrip is to acquire Skyscanner. Listen to our founder Gareth speak on this exciti…

We’re delighted to announce that leading Chinese online travel agent Ctrip is to acquire Skyscanner. Listen to our founder Gareth speak on this exciting news. More information on our blog: skyscanner.net/blogs

Data visualization as a discipline lies at the intersection of design, data analytics, and engineering. This tech talk will cover the broad spectrum o…

Data visualization as a discipline lies at the intersection of design, data analytics, and engineering. This tech talk will cover the broad spectrum of what data visualization encompasses across these three major areas.
Data Viz for Analytics
Maxime Beauchemin -- Data Engineer @Airbnb
Superset (previously ‘Caravel’) began as an internal hackathon project at Airbnb to enable employees to explore data with minimal friction. Functionally, Superset makes it easy to connect to data sources, explore data through a SQL interface and a rich set of visualizations, and share insights through dashboards. In this talk we will discuss how a product mindset has shaped the evolution of Superset’s technology stack, UI, and feature set as it’s transformed from a hackathon project to a fully-featured open-source data tool.
Data Viz in Product
Chris Williams -- Data Viz Engineer @Airbnb
Eli Brumbaugh -- Data Viz Experience Designer @Airbnb
In this talk we focus on Airbnb’s Data Design Language System (Data DLS), a project built collaboratively between our Experience Design, Data Visualization, and Web Infra teams. Data DLS encapsulates a set of unified visualization components defined by shared design principles and patterns. We discuss how it provides a unified vocabulary across design and engineering, and enables rapid creation and iteration of consistent data-rich interfaces and visualizations that embody best practices.
The Art of Data
Kristin Henry -- Computer scientist, specializing in Science and Data Visualization, and Generative Art
How do artists use data as a medium? Should a data visualization developer experiment with creating data art? Can a beautiful data visualization even be considered as art? In this brief talk, we’ll touch on these questions and show some examples."

Airbnb’s global community gathered for three days in downtown Los Angeles for Airbnb Open, a festival of hosting. Ashton Kutcher, Gwyneth Paltrow, Eli…

Airbnb’s global community gathered for three days in downtown Los Angeles for Airbnb Open, a festival of hosting. Ashton Kutcher, Gwyneth Paltrow, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Frank Gehry were just a few featured speakers. Thousands of attendees from hundreds of countries came together to reimagine the future of travel through inspiring talks, exploring unique neighborhoods, and making meaningful connections with other hosts at community dinners, conversation spaces, and brain dates.
Check out more : https://airbnbopen.com/home

This #GivingTuesday, we partnered with MPOWERD Inc.​ and Kids of Kathmandu​ to give 100 schoolkids in a remote village in Nepal the gift of light. …

This #GivingTuesday, we partnered with MPOWERD Inc.​ and Kids of Kathmandu​ to give 100 schoolkids in a remote village in Nepal the gift of light.
Watch what happened when they received the surprise of a lifetime.

What is your mood of the stay? Choose and enjoy!
Five Senses (5enses) is an innovative way to look after our guests by triggering their senses t…

What is your mood of the stay? Choose and enjoy!
Five Senses (5enses) is an innovative way to look after our guests by triggering their senses throughout their hotel journey by enabling them to choose from an assortment of scented amenities, food, room lightening and music playlists all in line with their 'mood of the stay'. Enjoy!
Oxford School of Hospitality Management, Oxford Brookes University, UK
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Soundtrack: Colorful Spots by Daniel Heidel [Library of Free of Copyrights Music]